Math Place - Tom O'Brien
Math teacher and researcher Tom O'Brien offers resources and activities through this site, with planned updates each month to add more materials. These include books published by the UK's Association of Teachers of Mathematics—some out of print—now
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Math + Rigor = College - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
According to the recent US Department of Education Report Mathematics Equals Opportunity, completion of a rigorous program of mathematics at high school pays huge dividends when it comes time to enter college, regardless of the course of study pursued
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MathSciNet (AMS) - American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Reviews on the Web. A searchable Web database providing access to the American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, a subject index of bibliographic data for recent and forthcoming publications
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Maths Masters - Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
From the authors of a regular education column published in Melbourne's The Age newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald: mathsnacks ("haiku-size packages of beautiful mathematics, with accompanying illustration"); a list of movie clips featuring mathematics;
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MathsNet - Bryan Dye
MathsNet is a collection of pages about mathematics education, information technology, the Internet, and "some straightforward 'sums'." Tips and downloads for logo, spreadsheets and graphs, winlogo, excel, omnigraph, and graphing calculators such as the
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Math Worksheets Center
Thousands of teacher-made K-12 math worksheets, lessons, homework assignments, quizzes, and tip sheets. Browse by grade level or student age; each math topic links to an index of the remedial math worksheets that point up the skills needed to get to that
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Mating Games and Lizards - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Is there a winning strategy for the game Scissors-Paper-Rock? It certainly doesn't make sense to show the same configuration each time. An alert opponent would quickly learn to anticipate your move, make the appropriate response, and always win. A similar
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Matrices Help Relationships - William A. McWorter Jr.
This page uses examples to illustrate the use of matrices in solving problems of relations between variables, and continues with an "airline" problem involving networks, also solvable with matrices. The page is hosted by Alexander Bogomolny's Interactive
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Mayan Arithmetic - Steven Fought
A discussion of the importance of the Mayan symbol for zero and a tutorial on adding Mayan numbers by Steven Fought, written when he was a junior at Strath Haven High School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
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Mayan Mars - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
In 1601, Johannes Kepler undertook the challenge of deciphering the orbit of Mars and developing a mathematical theory of its motion to fit observations of the planet's changing position in the sky. In assuming that Earth itself traveled around the sun,
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Mayan mathematics - MacTutor Math History Archives
Linked essay on the mathematical achievements of the people of the Yucatan peninsula, with a description of the Mayan base twenty number system was a base twenty system and illustrations of the Mayan numerals. With references and other related web sites.
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Mayan Math - Karen M. Strom
The Mayans devised a counting system that was able to represent very large numbers by using only 3 symbols, a dot, a bar, and a symbol for zero, or completion, usually a shell. Charts here show the number cycle, as well as principles of arithmetic.
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Mazzocco Lab - Regents of the University of Minnesota
Researching cognitive development and function on problem solving behaviors, with special interest in "the development of numeracy skills, how those and other cognitive skills interact to affect and predict long term mathematics achievement outcomes,
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Möbius and his Band - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
A Möbius band (or strip) is a surface with only one side and one edge. You can make one by joining the two ends of a long strip of paper after giving one end a 180-degree twist. An article about a geometrical theory of polyhedra; Euler's formula
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Möbius at Fermilab - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Sculptures by Robert R. Wilson, three-dimensional versions of the usual "one-sided" surface, one on the grounds of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, IL, another near an entrance to the Science Center at Harvard University
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Möbius in the Playground - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Many people are familiar with the remarkable one-sided surface known as the Moebius band. You can easily make one by gluing or taping together the two ends of a long strip of paper after giving one end a half twist... At the Sugar Sand Science Playground
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Meaningful Learning Research Group - Dr. Joseph Novak
The group works with a number of common beliefs, primary among them the idea that the best way to teach is to determine what the student already knows, and then to teach from there. They believe that teaching and learning grounded in a coherent theory
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The Median Isn't the Message - Stephen Jay Gould
A personal story of statistics and "stretching the truth with numbers"; according to Steve Dunn, "the wisest, most humane thing ever written about cancer and statistics. It is the antidote both to those who say that, 'the statistics
don't matter,' and
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Medieval Harmony - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Harmonic numbers. The history of mathematics contains many gems of mathematical reasoning and thought. At a Mathematical Sciences Research Institute meeting last October, number theorist Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr. of the University of California at Berkeley
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Melkamu Zeleke
Melkamu Zeleke is a graduate student in combinatorics. His papers and solutions to some problems from American Mathematics Monthly and Math Magazine may be downloaded as TeX, .dvi, or PostScript files. The code for accompanying Maple packages RADON,
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MendelWeb - Roger B. Blumberg
An educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science. Constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche
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Mersenne Megaprime - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
On June 1, 1999, a participant in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) discovered the the 38th known Mersenne prime - the first known prime number with at least 2 million decimal digits, more than twice as many as the previous record holder.
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MetroMath
MetroMath "finds research-based ways to ensure that urban children learn the mathematics they need; that urban mathematics teachers are equipped with the most effective instructional strategies; and that the human resources of urban communities are used
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Michael Serra
From the author of Discovering Geometry: An Investigative Approach and Smart Moves: the Games and Puzzles series; videos such as DG Investigations and "How to Teach Math Anxiety"; articles and handouts on cooperative learning; speaking engagements and
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